PURPLE HEARTS 45th anniversary of their seminal 'Beat That!' album.

PURPLE HEARTS - 45th anniversary of their seminal 'Beat That!' album.

Iconic 70's Mod Revivalists

Purple Hearts formed in 1977. The bans was considered one of the best English mod revival groups,the NME calling them "one of the few mod bands to actually cut it on rock 'n' roll terms"

The Purple Hearts were one of the key bands along with The Jam, Secret Affair, The Chords, The Lambrettas, and Squire.

The Purple Hearts at the thad three singles which reached the UK charts Jimmy, Frustration & Millions Like Us and an incredible 1980 debut LP Beat That! on Fiction Records. Further classic singles followed such as My Life's A Jigsaw, & Plane Crash before the band split in 1982.

Two of the original members of the Purple Hearts, Bob Manton and Jeff Shadbolt, return to perform music from the band's back catalogue along with a few surprises.

The bands name Purple Hearts came around due to a drug mixture popular with the mods of the 1960s. Accordingly, they changed their sound from the rough-edged punk rock, to a more mod-influenced sound, which, thanks largely to The Jam, was beginning to capture public attention. In September 1979, the band scored a minor hit with their debut single, "Millions Like Us". The band then toured the UK with Secret Affair and Back To Zero on 'the march of the mods' tour in 1979.The band's second single, "Frustration" was released in November that year. A tour of the UK to promote the single followed.

In 1980, the band released their debut album, Beat That!. The album was produced by Chris Parry of Fiction Records. The single taken from the album, "Jimmy", gave the band another hit in the UK charts in March 1980. The band parted company with Fiction Records then signed a one-off single deal with Safari which produced the "My Life`s A Jigsaw" single, produced by Andy Arthurs. The record did make the BBC Radio One playlist, but did not make the national charts. A final single, "Plane Crash" was released in 1982, on the independent record label Roadrunner Records before the band split up in November of that year.

The Purple Hearts are currently on tour. This is a stop off date en route to a Festival in Scotland.